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If we don’t aspire to anything then we won’t achieve anything.

Growing up in a small town in Ireland the world seemed like such a big place with far flung destinations that people could only dream about visiting. I’d watch a movie and people would be swimming with dolphins, jumping out of airplanes, climbing mountains and I would think ‘wow, I would love to do that one day’ and then ‘one day’ came. That day was the  day I finished my last university exam in 2006 and since then I have gone about chasing those dreams, and occasionally I’ve managed to catch a few of them!

So many people talk about their dream job, dream holiday, dream lifestyle but we can all have those dreams – it’s just a matter of redesigning our lifestyles, shaking up the status quo and doing what you’ve always wanted to do.

As I do the things I dream of I score them out as a reminder that we can all do what we dream of, it just takes a little bit of a push and a step back from the security and normality of our current lives. Life is supposed to be an adventure and one that we can all take part in, now all we have to do is enroll…

~ You may delay, but time will not ~Benjamin Franklin

Things I want to see and have my breath taken away:

1. Mount Everest, Nepal/Tibet
2. The Taj Mahal, India
3. Shibuya Crossing, Japan
4. The Great Wall of China, China
5. Aurora/The Northern Lights, Norway
6. Tiananmen Square, China
7. Lhasa, Tibet
8. Snow Capped Mt Fuji, Japan
9. Petra, Jordon
10. The Pyramids of Giza, Egypt
11. Angkor Wat, Cambodia
12. A live volcano
13. Uluru, Australia
14. Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy
15. The Colosseum of Rome, Italy
16. The Eiffel Tower, France
17. The Statue Of Liberty, USA
18. Machu Pichu, Peru
19. Chichen Itza, Mexico
20. The Maracana, Brazil
21. Victoria Falls(and swim in the devil’s pool), Zimbabwe & Zambia
22. Spiritual Centres: Jerusalem, Mecca, Bodhgaya, Amiritsar, Varanasi
23. The Kremlin, Russia
24. Sydney Harbour, Australia
25. Christ the Redeemer, Brazil
26. The Terracotta Army, China
27. Halong Bay, Vietnam
28. The White House, USA
29. The Grand Canyon, USA
30. Iguazu Falls, Argentina
31. The Amazon Rainforest
32. Bhutan
33. The Great Barrier Reef. Australia
34. Easter Island, Chile
35. Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
36. The Nile
37. Borobudur, Indonesia
38. The Serengeti/Masai Mara, Tanzania/Kenya
39. The Petronas Twin Towers, Malaysia
40. Timbuktu, Mali
41. Banaue Rice Terraces, The Philippines
42. Zanzibar, Tanzania
43. The Hagia Sophia, Turkey
44. The World Islands, UAE
45. The Sistine Chapel,  The Vatican
46. The Ngorongoro crater, Tanzania
47. The Forbidden City, China
48. The Golden Pavilion, Japan
49. The Gateway of India, Mumbai
50. Komodo dragons in Komodo, Indonesia
51. The Tower of London, England
52. Bagan Temples of Myanmar
53. The Giant’s Causeway, Northern Ireland

Things I want to do and experience:

1. Attend the Running of the Bulls, Spain
2. Climb Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
3. Trek to the South Pole
4. Attend a River Plate/Boca Juniors Game, Argentina
5. Trek to Everest Base Camp, Nepal/Tibet
6. Camel Safari in Sahara/Thar Desert, Egypt/India
7. Skydive
8. Bungee Jump
9. Paraglide
10. Parasail
11. Base Jump
12. Take a Gondola in Venice, Italy
13. Gamble in Vegas, USA
14. Take the Trans-Siberian train from Moscow to Beijing
15. Speak to a Geisha in Japan
16. Do some drugs in Columbia (sorry mum, avert ur eyes!)
17. See Orangutans in the wild in Borneo, Malaysia/Indonesia/Brunei
18. Attend the Olympics
19. Attend the World Cup final
20. Learn a foreign language (Thai – far from fluent yet!)
21. Get drunk at Oktoberfest in Germany
22. Save a life
23. Party at Carnival, Rio, Brazil
24. Ride in a Hot Air Balloon
25. Swim with Great White Sharks
26. Climb Empire State Building, USA
27. Write a book
28. Get my masters (in the process)
29. Go on Safari in Africa
30. Smoke in Amsterdam, Holland
31. Drink Guinness in Dublin, Republic of Ireland
32. Climb Table Mountain, South Africa
33. Watch the burning ghats in the Ganges, India
34. Take a boat down the bay of Bengal, Bangladesh
35. Visit the Aran Islands, Republic of Ireland
36. Get Married
37. Have kids
38. Circumnavigate the globe
39. Visit Uluru, Australia
40. Play football in the favellas of Brazil
41. Drink vodka in Siberia, Russia
42. Visit every continent
43. Travel to more than 100 countries
44. Cross a country on a bike
45. Waterfight in Songkran, Thailand
46. Spend a night in a cell
47. Throw tomatoes La Tomatina, Spain
48. Do the Mongol Rally
49. Learn to Snowboard
50. Create online businesses that mean I’m always location independant

~ ”It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.”  ~ André Gide

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